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What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.
Former White House news secretary Scott McClellan in his book, What Happened. It reached #1 on Amazon before its official publication date and his charge that the war was just a Bush propaganda campaign sent Administration spinmeisters […]

Thank you, Your Holiness. Awesome speech.
Perhaps only George Bush would say “awesome speech” to a pope, but he did, when Benedict visited the White House in mid-April.
See for yourself:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dXwqQFS8t6o

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So?
Vice President Dick Cheney’s response on March 19, when told by ABC News’ Martha Raddatz that a majority of Americans, about two-thirds, say the Iraq war isn’t worth it.
The ever-sensitive Cheney went on to say, “You can’t be blown off course by polls.”

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Iron Chef America is more bogus than even I had imagined.
Restaurant critic Robert Sietsema in The Village Voice February 19th. He attended a taping of the one-hour show — it took about half a day — and spilled the beans about everything from whether the challenger’s choice of Iron Chef is spontaneous (no) to whether […]

They said this day would never come.
Illinois Senator Barack Obama, beginnng his victory speech after the Democrats’ Iowa Caucuses January 3.
See it and hear it: Obama Wins Iowa

Welcome to Scotland
After spending six months and £125,000 — about a quarter-million dollars — that’s the new slogan Scotland came up with to replace “The best small country in the world.”
The content of this blog is being stolen and reproduced, in its entirety. Shame on you. It is illegal and dishonorable.
If you are reading this at […]

Beauty is only a light switch away.”
Top Chef Season 3 finalist Dale Levitski, during the cast reunion October 10. A nosy viewer wanted to know if the gay chef is still single (yes) and what his type is. His answer was one of the tedious reunion’s few bright moments.

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The police, since my trouble, have not worked out for me.”
OJ Simpson, after his latest “trouble” two weeks ago in Las Vegas. This time he’s facing multiple felony counts for the robbery of sports memorabilia, including some of his own. Oh, make that alleged robbery. Like alleged murder. Of two people.
Second-best quote: “He’s facing a lot […]

George Bush had the audacity to compare the Iraqi mess with Vietnam to try to justify his military commitment in Iraq. He told a convention of veterans that withdrawing would lead to massive suffering, even deaths:
One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies […]

We’ve all heard the camera adds ten pounds. During this past week’s (inexplicable, except as filler) mid-season Top Chef reunion the head judge, Chef Tom Colicchio, put a reality-show spin on the adage: 
The camera adds ten pounds of bitch.
I doubt I was the only one who thought immediately of Season One’s Tiffani. I’m so glad she lost. […]

Has everyone recovered from the final episode of The Sopranos? I haven’t seen such a public outcry since Bobby Ewing showed up in the shower to let us know it was all a dream.
I think nobody put it better than David Bianculli in the New York Daily News:
The Sopranos didn’t end. It just stopped.
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It would appear that Harry’s life is more valuable than my son or the other nearly 150 service personnel who’ve given their lives.
The words of Briton Reg Keys, on hearing that Britain’s Prince Harry — the one who wore a Nazi uniform to a costume party — would not be serving in Iraq after all. […]

A military school Cadet, 21 years old and soon to become an Army Lieutenant, said after two former students from his school, Norwich Academy in Northfield VT, were killed in Iraq:
It’s kind of like Wow, there really is a war out there.
Wow indeed. The story is here.

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